I couldn't find a stand alone thread for this game. I think there is a homebrewer on the development team. I have found at least 3 references to brewing. The last one was in some skritt caverns in a 50-60 area. I overheard one npc telling another npc that the cavern had been a brewery. He even used the term "mash tun". When I heard it, I went to the chat log just to make sure. It was even spelled correctly. The funny thing was that the voice actor sounded like he said "mash tub", and I can imagine that it would be easy for voice-actors/recording staff to think that it was a misspelling and correct it to "mash tub" in the studio.

It's got some issues with combat that I'm not big on. But there are a lot of aspects that impress me. I like that for the most part they have removed some typical mmorpg elements that only make gameplay unfun. You can swim underwater as long as you want, you can store a humongous amount of crafting ingredients in your collection, you can access the bank from a few places that are not the bank. The overall appearance and world design is amazing.

I have been enjoying it since beta. I don't have much time to play anymore, but the few hours I get here and there are still fun. I hear from some guildies that the WvW has some exploits that some servers are massively taking advantage of. So I stay out of there to limit my frustration.

I have been enjoying it since beta. I don't have much time to play anymore, but the few hours I get here and there are still fun. I hear from some guildies that the WvW has some exploits that some servers are massively taking advantage of. So I stay out of there to limit my frustration.

From what I've seen of Arenanet so far, they will squash those exploits as soon they can.

I've never been much of a PvP or WvW kind of player. I'm close enough to lvl30 that I might get to run the first major instance this weekend. All of my friends have already run it, but a couple said they'd do it again with me. Then we can all run it again at the next stage. I like how they set up the instances to be different several times through.